Dr. Arianna Pacifico is an Adjunct Instructor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and an Education Researcher at the International Rescue Committee’s Airbel Impact Lab. She received her PhD in International Comparative Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is also a CGA alumn, earning her MS in Global Affairs at New York University.  

Arianna’s research focuses on education in contexts of conflict, crisis and forced displacement, the political economy of aid, and refugee inclusion in national education systems. Her work examines how to support education for the world's most vulnerable populations in ways that are at scale, cost-effective and contribute to sustainable peace and development across a range of contexts including Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. She has worked on research projects with a wide range of international organizations including UNESCO-IIEP, the World Bank, and the International Rescue Committee. Previously she coordinated the Standards and Practice Working Group at the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) building inter-agency coalitions to advance the global education in emergencies agenda.